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<blockquote data-quote="talinthas" data-source="post: 1789876" data-attributes="member: 10339">yeah, which is why any attempt to make an rpg out of india would have to stick to the universal classics, aka the mahabharat, the ramayan, and the upanishads.&nbsp; Beyond that, it becomes way too complex to try to properly model.&nbsp; For a bit, i was toying with the idea of making regional feat packages representing various cultural groups, but i stopped because it would be too hard to do without falling into traps of cultural bias.&nbsp; I'm a gujarati; that means that i have pretty well ingrained opinions of other groups in india, based on their historical interactions with the gujus, and transmitted through parents and cultural norms.&nbsp; That sort of thing makes the idea of trying to stat out various groups untenable.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thusly, it's better to play in the mythology, where everyone spoke classical sanskrit and had clearly defined lines of good and evil =)&nbsp;I mean, when we look at roman mythology, no one cares that the etruscans and the sicilians were ethinic enemies or anything.&nbsp; Japanese rpgs don't really waste time on the ainu and okinawans, and so on and so on.&nbsp;&nbsp;And man, you haven't seen diversity till you've been to one of the four big cities of India.&nbsp;&nbsp; every ethnicity in the world is represented, from the white skinned, blue eyed folks from Kashmir, to the pitch black curly haired folks in tamil nadu, to the asian folks from assam and arunchal pradesh,&nbsp; and the &quot;bollywood standard&quot; brown folks from Bombay and Gujarat.&nbsp; it's crazy =)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="talinthas, post: 1789876, member: 10339"] yeah, which is why any attempt to make an rpg out of india would have to stick to the universal classics, aka the mahabharat, the ramayan, and the upanishads. Beyond that, it becomes way too complex to try to properly model. For a bit, i was toying with the idea of making regional feat packages representing various cultural groups, but i stopped because it would be too hard to do without falling into traps of cultural bias. I'm a gujarati; that means that i have pretty well ingrained opinions of other groups in india, based on their historical interactions with the gujus, and transmitted through parents and cultural norms. That sort of thing makes the idea of trying to stat out various groups untenable. Thusly, it's better to play in the mythology, where everyone spoke classical sanskrit and had clearly defined lines of good and evil =) I mean, when we look at roman mythology, no one cares that the etruscans and the sicilians were ethinic enemies or anything. Japanese rpgs don't really waste time on the ainu and okinawans, and so on and so on. And man, you haven't seen diversity till you've been to one of the four big cities of India. every ethnicity in the world is represented, from the white skinned, blue eyed folks from Kashmir, to the pitch black curly haired folks in tamil nadu, to the asian folks from assam and arunchal pradesh, and the "bollywood standard" brown folks from Bombay and Gujarat. it's crazy =) [/QUOTE]

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